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- FrontDoor (and InterMail) Historical Humans 1.1
- (C) 1994 Psycho Hut Software, all rights reserved.
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- Legal Stuff
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- FrontDoor is (C) Joaquim Homrighausen
- InterMail is (C) Peter Stewart
- RemoteAccess is (C) Wantree Development
- Portal of Power is (C) The Portal Team
- TICK is (C) Barry Geller
-
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- Disclaimer
- ----------
- FrontDoor Historical Humans (FDHH from here on out) is freeware. It is
- copyrighted, but may be used with no added charge in a noncommercial OR
- commercial environment. FDHH is guaranteed to do no more than occupy approx.
- 35k of hard drive space. If it breaks, you own both parts, etc...
-
- It is, however, netmailware. If you're using it, send me netmail
- letting me know that you are. Not required, but I'm just curious as to
- how many people ARE using FDHH...
-
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- WHAT IS IT????
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- FDHH will read a RemoteAccess LASTCALL.BBS file and add the users' name,
- location, time/date of call, and if applicable, the node # that he logged
- into to the FrontDoor INBOUND.HIS file. INBOUND.HIS is better known as
- Inbound History, or ALT-I from the main FD screen. It will also, if you don't
- tell it not to, add the users' information to the LASTCALL.FD file, that
- holds the information displayed in the "In...Out" box of FrontDoor.
-
- I missed this feature of Portal of Power when I switched back to FD, so I
- wrote it.
-
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- How to use FDHH
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- In order for FDHH to work, it needs for the following two environment variables
- to be set:
-
- %FD% - Path to the FrontDoor system directory
- %RA% - Path to the RemoteAccess system directory
- %IM% - Path to the InterMail system directory
-
- Next, you run FDHH from the directory you've installed it to (or from
- another if it's in your PATH, there's no config file necessary) using one
- of these two commands as the first parameter:
-
- FD -> Specifies FrontDoor mode
- IM -> Specifies InterMail mode
-
- ...and it will add the last caller in LASTCALL.BBS to INBOUND.HIS and/or
- LASTCALL.FD (or LASTCALL.IM).
-
- The following command-line parameters also work with FDHH (you can use - or
- /, not case-sensitive):
-
- -A - Use aliases instead of real names
- -O - Do not place the user's name on the waiting-for-call screen
- -L - Do not place the user's info in the history file
- -? - HELP!!!
-
- You can also override the %RA% or %FD% (or %IM%) environment variable
- setting with one of the following switches (syntax same as above):
-
- -P<path> - FD (or IM) path
- -R<path> - RA path
-
- If INBOUND.HIS does not exist, FDHH will create it as per JoHo's
- specifications in the FrontDoor developer's kit. It will not create a
- LASTCALL.FD or LASTCALL.IM so I advise you to have one already available,
- lest the dreaded "Run-time Error xxx at xxxx:xxxx" message appear.
-
- You should place FDHH in your batch file somewhere to run after
- every BBS call.
-
- --------------------------
- some example command lines
- --------------------------
- FDHH FD
-
- The basic FDHH command line. Places the last caller in both INBOUND.HIS
- and the waiting-for-call screen, provided the RA and FD environment
- variables are set.
-
- FDHH FD -O
-
- Would place the last caller in FD's INBOUND.HIS without placing it on the
- Waiting-for-call screen.
-
- FDHH IM -A -L -Pd:\im\
-
- Would place the last caller's ALIAS on IM's waiting-for-call screen, with
- IM being in the path d:\im\
-
- FDHH FD -L -O
-
- Would do nothing. Don't use this one :) May be worthwhile for debugging
- purposes, though...
-
- ---
- FAQ
- ---
- (well, actually, nobody's asked me a question yet, but I can dream :)
-
- Q> FDHH is making FrontDoor (or InterMail) think that it's 1987! (or a
- similar time problem)
- A> Two possible answers. You could live in my area, where time is behind
- by 7 years (don't you love a whiner), or you're in the Eastern time zone
- and it's not daylight savings time. To fix this, set the following
- environment variable:
-
- SET TZ=EST05EDT
-
- FDHH requires the '0' before the 5. If you're using another program
- such as TICK that needs this environment variable but works without the '0',
- you'll have to kludge it by setting the variable differently before calling
- FDHH. If this doesn't work, make sure your clock's set correctly on your
- machine (which would seem obvious, but it's easily overlooked).
-
- Q> Where on earth did you get the name "Psycho Hut Software?"
- A> What does this have to do with FDHH?
-
- (please excuse sarcastic interlude. It's late and my brain is
- short-circuiting.)
-
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- Future Versions of FDHH
- -----------------------
- I don't plan any new versions of FDHH, unless a catastrophic bug appears
- that causes earthquakes or other natural disasters. And no, I
- don't expect this to happen :). It should be fairly stable and there's not
- anything I could add, except maybe support for other BBS software. But we
- all know that there's not any BBS software after RA, so... :)
-
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- Contacting the Author
- ---------------------
- I can be reached through several channels:
-
- NetMail: 1:2260/150
- Echomail: PDREVIEW, FDECHO, RA_UTIL, INTERMAIL
- US Mail: Josh Whitt
- Rt. 2 Box 420K
- South Shore, KY 41175
- BBS: (606)932-6662 (Psycho Hut II, RemoteAccess 2.02)
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- Holiday Greetings
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- Have a Merry Christmas. *<:-)
-
- - Josh Whitt 12/05/94
-